Selected podcast episodes on psychology, economics, science, history and culture

Tag: The Tim Ferriss Show

The Tim Ferriss Show | 11 August 2019 | 2h 06m | Listen Later | iTunes
Interview with Charles Koch discussing ideas from his books The Science of Success and Good Profit. Discusses the thinkers that influenced the development of his philosophy of Market-Based Management, which helped him grow Koch Industries to be one of the largest private companies in the world. Covers MBM and his philanthropy, especially Stand Together, which partners with social entrepreneurs to improve their effectiveness and scale at tackling poverty, improving education, and reforming criminal justice.

The Tim Ferriss Show | 2 April 2015 | 0h 16m | Listen Later
An essay from Tim Kreider’s We Learn Nothing: Essays. Makes the case for emptying the clutter from our lives to give room for what’s important to emerge.

The Tim Ferriss Show | 14 February 2019 | 1h 48m | Listen Later | iTunes
Interview with Caterina Fake, co-founder of Flicker and Yes VC. Tells the Flicker story, but also covers other startups and the value of bringing a humanities background to investing. Fascinating perspectives on time management and personal productivity. Deliciously sprinkled throughout with apposite poems, quoted from memory.

The Tim Ferriss Show | 21 January 2018 | 2h 26m | Listen Later | iTunes
This is a tear-jerker, with so many reasons to listen. Interview with Catherine Hoke, the founder of Defy Ventures, a nonprofit aimed at ending mass incarceration by harnessing entrepreneurship to transform prisoners. Hoke is the author of A Second Chance: For You, for Me, and for the Rest of Us. The conversation covers her background, advocacy for giving prisoners a second chance and deals openly and bravely with her redemption after her own second chance.